Faculty News
Gil Oberfield Lecture: Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects
This year’s Gil Oberfield Memorial Lecture will feature Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects. Jaklitsch/Gardner is an award-winning design practice with an international reputation for design excellence, material research, and an exacting commitment to craft. Founded in 1998, the firm believes that design possesses the ability to communicate collective values, provide relevance, and create …
Zach Violette has won the Spiro Kostof Book Award
The Society of Architectural Historians has just announced that Zach Violette’s book has won the Spiro Kostof Book Award. This award honors “interdisciplinary studies of urban history that make the greatest contribution to our understanding of the growth and development of cities.” Engaging with the topic of American urban housing, …
New Book by Professor Mark Hage
Congratulations to Mark Hage, Parsons SCE faculty, on the publication of Capital, a photographic essay and exploration of New York’s shuttered stores, and a mediation on impermanence. “At first, and perhaps out of discomfort, I walked by thinking of them as surface, without seeking depth or further understanding. But with time, …
Rama Chorpash in Conversation with Circular City Week
Circular City Week New York brings together local change makers and global front runners as well as a wide range of experts and advocates who would like to join the circular economy movement. The aim of the week is to inspire industry professionals across sectors, showcase international pioneers, highlight local change makers …
Tommy Yang and Cia Siab in Wisconsin explores home and healing in The Battlefields of Memory
The Battlefields of Memory explores “cia siab” (hope) to understand Hmong youth, elders, LGBTQ, and women’s lived experiences of war, historical trauma, memory, resilience, and healing through unpacking home narratives of the bedroom. Historical trauma shows up in traces; whether that is the trace of the refugee camps in an …
LEVENBETTS Selected as AIA NY Firm of the Year
Congratulations to David Leven, Parsons Associate Professor of Architecture, and Stella Betts whose architectural practice, LEVENBETTS, has been recognized as the 2020 AIA NY State Firm of the Year. LEVENBETTS is an award winning New York City based architecture practice founded by David Leven and Stella Betts in 1997. The …
Manual of Physical Distancing by LTL Architects
The Manual of Physical Distancing was first presented to the public in May 2020 as a consolidated effort by LTL Architects — founded by David Lewis, Paul Lewis, and Marc Tsurumaki — and Guy Nordenson & Associates to support the scientific research on Covid-19 by using the visual practices of …
Rosannah Harding and Matthew Ostrow Received AIANY Merit Award
Photo: HardingOstrow Congratulations to Rosannah Harding, Parsons architectural design faculty, and Matthew Ostrow on receiving a Merit Award in this year’s AIANY Design Awards. Their project, Perch, explores the adaptive reuse of one of New York’s most iconic and visited infrastructure — the Brooklyn Bridge. By introducing a new pedestrian level above …
Dean Kirkbride interviewed for A Public Space
Back when we could meet in small rooms for an interview, Dean Robert Kirkbride was interviewed by Mark Hage for Issue No. 29 of the literary and arts journal, A Public Space. “In these times of fragments and fragmented times,” this newly released issue focuses on “the shapes of our …
Rama Chorpash to Join Danish Design Award Jury
For the second year in a row, Rama Chorpash will be joining the Danish Design Award jury. The Award celebrates best design solutions and foregrounds the many ways in which design can make a difference for our society. Presented jointly by the Danish Design Center and Design denmark, it has …